scholarly journals South Florida Ecosystem Program: quantifying freshwater discharge for coastal hydraulic control structures in eastern Dade County, Florida

Fact Sheet ◽  
1996 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amit Kapadia ◽  
Eric D. Swain
Keyword(s):  
South Florida ◽  
Freshwater Discharge ◽  
Dade County ◽  
Hydraulic Control ◽  
Control Structures ◽  
South Florida Ecosystem

scholarly journals Multivariate statistical modelling of the drivers of compound flood events in south Florida

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (10) ◽  
pp. 2681-2699
Author(s):  
Robert Jane ◽  
Luis Cadavid ◽  
Jayantha Obeysekera ◽  
Thomas Wahl
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level Rise ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Statistical Modelling ◽  
The United States ◽  
South Florida ◽  
Dade County ◽  
Water Control ◽  
Original Design ◽  
Control Structures ◽  
Water Control Structures

Abstract. Miami-Dade County (south-east Florida) is among the most vulnerable regions to sea level rise in the United States, due to a variety of natural and human factors. The co-occurrence of multiple, often statistically dependent flooding drivers – termed compound events – typically exacerbates impacts compared with their isolated occurrence. Ignoring dependencies between the drivers will potentially lead to underestimation of flood risk and under-design of flood defence structures. In Miami-Dade County water control structures were designed assuming full dependence between rainfall and Ocean-side Water Level (O-sWL), a conservative assumption inducing large safety factors. Here, an analysis of the dependence between the principal flooding drivers over a range of lags at three locations across the county is carried out. A two-dimensional analysis of rainfall and O-sWL showed that the magnitude of the conservative assumption in the original design is highly sensitive to the regional sea level rise projection considered. Finally, the vine copula and Heffernan and Tawn (2004) models are shown to outperform five standard higher-dimensional copulas in capturing the dependence between the principal drivers of compound flooding: rainfall, O-sWL, and groundwater level. The work represents a first step towards the development of a new framework capable of capturing dependencies between different flood drivers that could potentially be incorporated into future Flood Protection Level of Service (FPLOS) assessments for coastal water control structures.

Understanding Patterns of Socioeconomic and Demographic Factors Along With Health Services Provider Availability for Zika Outbreak in South Florida

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 455-459
Author(s):  
Linda McQuade ◽  
Mya Rao ◽  
Roger Miller ◽  
Winnie Zhou ◽  
Rinku Deol ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Services ◽  
Demographic Factors ◽  
South Florida ◽  
Consumer Information ◽  
Dade County ◽  
Provider Network ◽  
Public Provider ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Machine Readable ◽  
Socioeconomic And Demographic Factors

AbstractIn this study, we analyzed the patterns of socioeconomic and demographic factors along with health services provider availability for the current Zika outbreak in Miami-Dade County, South Florida. We used Center for Consumer Information & Insurance Oversight (CCIIO) Machine-Readable Public Use Files (MR-PUFs) to examine provider availability in combination with socioeconomic and demographic factors that could potentially lead to healthcare disparities between any underserved population of the Wynwood neighborhood and the broader population of Miami-Dade County. MR-PUFs contain public provider-level data from states that are participating in the Federally Facilitated Marketplace. According to CCIIO, an issuer of a Qualified Health Plan that uses a provider network must maintain a network that is sufficient in the number and types of providers, including providers that specialize in mental-health and substance-use disorder services, to assure that all services will be accessible to enrollees without unreasonable delay. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2018;12:455–459)

Ecosystem Management and the Florida Everglades: The Role of Social Scientists

1997 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Walter Milon ◽  
Clyde F. Kiker ◽  
Donna J. Lee
Keyword(s):  
South Florida ◽  
Florida Everglades ◽  
Management Approach ◽  
Adaptive Procedure ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Evaluation Procedures ◽  
South Florida Ecosystem ◽  
Policy Objectives ◽  
High Degree

AbstractRecently many state and federal agencies in the U.S. have embraced an ecosystems management approach to environmental protection and regulation. This approach requires a high degree of cooperation between natural and social scientists to translate policy objectives into research hypotheses, models, and evaluation procedures to guide implementation decisions. An adaptive procedure to guide interdisciplinary research is described and illustrated with highlights of recent progress and pitfalls from the restoration initiative for the Everglades/South Florida ecosystem.

scholarly journals Immigrant Generation, Stress Exposure, and Substance Abuse among a South Florida Sample of Hispanic Young Adults

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 237802311984301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stacy Salerno ◽  
John Taylor ◽  
Quentin K. Kilpatrick
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Social Stress ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
South Florida ◽  
Generational Status ◽  
Dade County ◽  
First Generation Immigrants ◽  
Using Data

Existing research finds that succeeding immigrant generations are at greater risk for mental health problems as well as higher levels of substance use. Previous studies have attempted to unpack the role of acculturation stress, discrimination, and other factors in these outcomes. Using data from a community-based sample of Miami-Dade County young adults, we use an empirically and theoretically precise measurement of generational status, allowing us to better understand the process of acculturation and adaptation experienced by each generation. Our results are consistent with theories on the relationship between exposure to social stress and substance use. We find that first-generation immigrants have less exposure to social stress and as a consequence are at a decreased risk for involvement in substance use compared to second- and third-generation immigrants, who report being exposed to higher levels of social stress and higher levels of substance use.

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